Producer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Atlas makes music that sounds unmistakably cool. The studio almost feels like its own character in his songs, channeling the timelessness of the past and a progressive move towards the future. After announcing his next EP, Reverso (Nettwerk Records), Atlas shares the project’s cornerstone, aptly titled “Anchor.” There’s a smooth confidence to Tim’s vocals that propel the song to euphoric levels, soaring above kinetic guitar melodies and dance-inducing backbeat. Despite the song’s energy, it isn’t all fun and games; lyrically, Tim describes the song as a “quiet panic.”

“It’s about a collection of moments where life feels like it’s moving forward but rewinding at the same time,” he reflects. “I’m back in LA, but I’m not who I was when I left. The song is a quiet panic of looking for something to ground me, as well as the familiar, comfortable things in my life, before everything drifts too far.”

The song encapsulates the thread behind Reverso that ties these songs together. That shift in perspective that comes from returning to a familiar place as a changed person. Originally from the Bay Area, Atlas draws on that return to reflect on growth, identity, and the tension of revisiting something that once felt settled.

“Anchor” follows last month’s “Couple Up,” and the woozy “Only Love’s to Blame,” which will appear on the new Reverso EP out May 8, 2026.